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Sign the petition to keep a Costa Rican stockpile of 8 tons of hammerhead shark fins out of the foreign market. Background: In 2013, former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla (2010-2014) worked hard with national conservationists to project the nation as a global marine conservation pacesetter by leading the international campaign to include endangered hammerhead … Continue reading →

On the night of Wednesday February 8, 2017 Coast Guard officials from San Francisco de Coyote captured the shrimp trawler Monarca illegally fishing inside the Camaronal Wildlife Refuge’s Marine Protected Area located on the Nicoya Peninsula on the country’s Northern Pacific coast. Officials towed the vessel to Puntarenas and confiscated the catch which consisted of … Continue reading →

First Central American and snapper fishery to enter Marine Stewardship Council program March 16, 2015 (Seattle, WA) – The Nicoya Peninsula artisanal snapper fishery located in the nearshore waters of the Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica has voluntarily entered the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) full assessment process. Targeted species in the … Continue reading →

Teacher, conservationist, and cyclist Mark DiMaggio and University of California at Davis sophomore Devon Lambert have been taking action for the last few years against the slaughter of sharks by riding their road bikes across the country in multiple summer installments on an initiative they call Spinning to End Finning. 2013 marked the end of … Continue reading →

It has been an amazing adventure working with ARCAE this summer! For a day on the job, I headed out on the 5am bus from the small town of Punta Banco, on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, right across from the tip of the Osa Peninsula, at the mouth of the Golfo Dulce. … Continue reading →

The Costa Rican Environmental and Educational Network – ARCAE has been awarded a portable projector from the USA based biodiversity conservation non-profit Idea Wild. ARCAE would like to take this opportunity to thank Idea Wild for this generous gift. A projector will be a crucial piece of equipment for ARCAE’s educational and scientific presentations along … Continue reading →

The grass roots California based shark conservation initiative Spinning to End Finning will be holding a fundraising event in Paso Robles, California to promote the group’s bike ride from Colorado to Kentucky this summer to raise awareness of sharks and funds to support shark protection projects in Costa Rica. Click here to donate to the … Continue reading →

In 2012 ARCAE is performing a marine fauna visual survey of the mouth of the Golfo Dulce (Sweet Gulf) along Costa Rica’s Southern Pacific coast. The project’s data will contribute to a national campaign to establish an increased number of marine protected areas and responsible fishing zones in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. The Golfo Dulce … Continue reading →

Spinning to End Finning’s 2012 bike ride will raise awareness for the threats sharks face from overfishing and the practice of shark finning. The ride will also raise money for ARCAE and Pretoma, two Costa Rican marine environmental non-profit partners active in local, regional, and global shark conservation campaigns. As ARCAE’s executive director and Pretoma … Continue reading →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Melody Badgett, 1% for the Planet melody@onepercentfortheplanet.org +1 (802) 496-5408 ARCAE Announces Partnership with 1% for the Planet San Jose, Costa Rica, April 13 – The Costa Rican Environmental and Educational Network – ARCAE is a new nonprofit partner of 1% for the Planet, an … Continue reading →